CALL FOR PAPERS: 3rd Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language Proceedings.We are pleased to announce that selected conference proceedings will be published in the Hispanic Studies Review. For additional information, please download the PDF in the link below.

Symposium Updates

3rd National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language

The Third Annual Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language (SSHL) will be held at the University of Oregon February 18th-20th, 2016. Professor Claudia Holguín Mendoza, Director of the UO’s Spanish as a Heritage Language Program, invites you to participate in this community-oriented academic meeting. Activities include panels with theoretical and pedagogical proposals, sharing of experiences teaching and learning Spanish as a Heritage Language, workshops by Oregon dual immersion high school educators, workshops on community outreach, and a Creative Writing Contest.

The Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language (SSHL) is an intellectual forum for the discussion of both the variable linguistic reality of Spanish heritage bilingualism in the United States (and elsewhere) and the diverse pedagogical needs of students of Spanish as a heritage language. Researchers and educators in K-12 and higher education share theoretical and practical approaches to the study of Spanish as a heritage language from the perspectives of various disciplines, including Second Language Acquisition, Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, and Applied Linguistics, among others. The SSHL provides a space to bridge the gap between research findings and the praxis of heritage language teaching, allowing participants to collaborate effectively towards the implementation of pedagogies that allow heritage learners not only to develop their language proficiency but also to reflect on their own identity formation within a context of validation and empowerment.

National Symposium SHL Organizing committee:

Florencia G. Henshaw, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Claudia Holguín, University of Oregon (Chair 2016)

Julia Oliver-Raján, University of Iowa

Diego Pascual y Cabo, Texas Tech University (Chair 2014, 2015)

Julio Torres, University of California at Irvine

Damián Vergara Wilson, The University of New Mexico

The 2017 Symposium on SHL: The Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California-Irvine, is proud to organize the 4th Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language, which will take place on February 16th to 18th, 2017. More info here.